Tagged: Action
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, DVD Review
Way back in time, 1984 to be precise a film came to our screen’s that was to become a cult movie. That movie was The Terminator. With several reincarnations, the last of which came to us in 2003 we thought that the franchise had been settled, but oh no, a new Terminator film called Terminator [...]
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Les Franken (Michael Rapaport) is an ordinary guy with nothing really that unique to set him above any normal guy in the street until he is accepted into a trail for an experimental anti-depressant called Specioprin Hydrochloride. Les starts taking the drugs he begins to have some strange side effects namely that he begins to [...]
Learn more...Death Race, Blu Ray Review
The year is 2012, the American economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared along with crime rates. Due to the spiralling costs of incarcerating these miscreants the prison system has been privatised and corporations run prisons for profit. One enterprising prison streams cage fights between prisoners live on the internet on a pay per view basis. Things get [...]
Learn more...Casino Royale Deluxe Edition, Blu-Ray Review
It only seems like yesterday that I first heard that Daniel Craig was going to be the new Bond. I have to admit to going to IMDB to find who the hell he was (I hadn’t and still haven’t seen Layer Cake). The only one of his previous films I seem to remember seeing was [...]
Learn more...Rambo, Blu-Ray Review
When you think of a Rambo film you think of a pumped up Sylvester Stallone shooting from the hip, dodging bullets left right and centre whilst killing and entire army by himself. Unfortunately this view of the character is left over from the sequels to the original First Blood. If we return the roots of [...]
Learn more...Wanted, Blu-Ray Review
Wanted is a film loosely based on the comic book series, by Mark Millar, of the same name. Apparently Universal were looking for a comic book film adaptation that would be an R rating (R – Restricted, may contain very strong language or strong sexual content/innuendo, strong explicit nudity, strong violence and gore, or strong [...]
Learn more...Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, DVD Review
Movie: Way back in 1981 George Lucas and Steven Spielberg released Raiders of the Lost Ark onto the world and in the process influenced what action adventure films would be like for many years to come. Now almost 20 years after the last movie in the trilogy that spawned from the original, Lucas and Spielberg [...]
Learn more...Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, DVD Review
Before I start this review I just want to say that I am generally not a big “Martial Arts” film fan or indeed expert. In fact out of my whole collection this is the only film of this type that I own, unless you count The Matrix. The only reason I ordered the disk is [...]
Learn more...Basic Instinct: Special Edition DVD Review
When Ex rock star Johnny Boz is found murdered in his bed the eyes of the police turn straight towards his lover Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone). Suspicions run even higher when Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) discovers that he was murdered in exactly the same way as a character in one of her books. Nick [...]
Learn more...Escape from New York, Blu-Ray Review
In my eyes Escape from New York has to stand up there with the sci-fi classics. Writer/director John Carpenter has quite a list that fall into the classic category, starting with Dark Star and going on to Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China and They Live. Escape from New York [...]
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